Introduction

The Internet Society Foundation supports organizations around the world to create an Internet for Everyone – by enabling access and digital skills for communities in need, by funding research into critical issues around the future of the Internet, and by supporting the delivery of Internet-based solutions to challenges that face people around the world.

We currently support grantees in 90 countries across 6 continents, and awarded USD $18,388,172 in funding in 2023.

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Countries the Internet Society Foundation has funded projects since 2015.
Click to highlight the countries with active projects throughout 2020

Meet a selection of our grantees

Neema Iyer

Neema Iyer

Neema Iyer is an artist and a technologist. She is the founder of Pollicy, an award-winning feminist civic technology collective based in Kampala, Uganda. Pollicy uses data, design and technology to explore the impact of emerging technology on society and vice-versa. Neema currently leads the design of a number of projects focused on building data skills, on fostering conversations on data governance and digital security, and on innovating around technology policy.

She is a 2021 awardee of our Research grant program and is part of a team investigating the role that language plays in promoting digital inclusion. (Watch this lightning talk to learn more about their research).

Neema Iyer

Explore the projects

If you're working on any of the themes we fund, you can read the details behind our grant programmes in more detail: